About SF BRIDGE
The SF BRIDGE program grants a unique opportunity for San Francisco State University (SFSU) students interested in becoming insider researchers to learn about health research, policy and advocacy from UCSF and SFSU faculty. Insider researchers are people who have lived experience with priority populations and who have community cultural wealth. Participants engage in hands-on learning using San Francisco as a living lab and engage in other real-life experiences.
This new and innovative program is funded by the UC Office of the President Tobacco and Vape Free Scholars Initiative.
Program Goals
“We got next” is a clarion call used in basketball by newly arriving players to secure their entry into a domain dominated by others already in the game. As it relates to our program design, it is a clarion call for young scholars from priority populations to join the workforce and engage in tobacco control research, which, like other biomedical research domains, systemically excludes aspiring scholars due to ethnicity and race.
Our Team
Post Doctoral Near Peer mentors
Sabrina Islam, PhD, MS
Jelena Mustra Rakic, PhD
Deanna Halliday, PhD
Dan Kabella, PhD
Karla Llanes, PhD
Faculty
- Rama Ali Kased, MS, EdD, Principal Investigator, SFSU
- Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH, Principal Investigator, UCSF
- Kelechi Uwaezuoke, Program Director, SFSU
- Pam Ling, MD, MPH, Senior Advisor and Mentor, UCSF
- Leticia Marquez-Magana, MS, PhD Senior Advisor, SFSU
- Kathleen Franklin, Postdoctoral Coordinator
- Maya Vijayaragavan, MD, MAS, Assistant Professor, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
- Dorie Apollonio, PhD, MPP, Professor, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Contact Us
For media inquiries or more information on the SF BRIDGE program, please contact:
- Kala M. Mehta, UCSF, [email protected]
- Adrienne Lazaro, SFSU, [email protected]